Stephen Hopkins joined Eversheds in 1988 and was made a partner in 1991 specialising in restructuring, banking and more latterly private equity and corporate work. In 2007 he was appointed as client partner for the ground breaking Tyco relationship, which has been renewed again in 2014 taking it to over a decade of one of the most innovative legal partnerships in the world. Under the latest contract, legal advice given by Eversheds  anywhere in Europe Middle East or Africa cannot exceed a single page, if it does Eversheds will not be entitled to payment for such advice.

With the experience of managing extensive international relationships, Stephen was appointed Head of International for Eversheds in 2009 overseeing the development phase of Eversheds from a nascent international firm into a global player. Stephen is now heading the firms commitment to the delivery of quality services to multinational corporates. The collation, analysis and use of global management information on legal spend is unique to Eversheds. This approach has been adopted by many Eversheds clients helping them to control and reduce their external spend and to deepening relationships with the firm at the same time.

Stephen was shortlisted in the recent Financial Times European Legal Innovation Awards as Legal Innovator of the year and last year was honoured as one of the top 50 innovators in law in the last 50 years by the American Lawyer magazine. Stephen picked up his trophy at an awards ceremony in New York City and was named in the category “Business of Law” for conceiving the award-winning Global Account Management System (GAMS). He was honoured alongside peers including Martin Lipton (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz), Larry Sonsini (Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Roasti) and Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Stephen was awarded the 2015 Client Choice award for UK corporate, an award nominated and voted on purely by in house counsel.

Client partner for household names such as Hilton Hotels, G4S, Nokia IATA and Avis Budget Group helping them through major convergence programmes.

Stephen runs our SHINE programme which facilitates General Counsel sharing best practice across the community of in house counsel. Stephen was a major force in helping Eversheds winning the MENA Counsel Visionary Law Firm of the year Award 2016.

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